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Open mike 14/02/2013
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Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
As ever, too much National to complain about, too little time. So just 3 quickly - Wrong: As excellently covered by Karol, but too quickly dropped by our papers, the Salvation Army's excellent annual State of the Nation report gives the Government a D on…
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Economic crime
Yes, the Nat's economic policies are a crime against common sense and the vast majority of the people. But currently in the news is the other kind of economic crime - white collar crime - fraud and tax evasion. We have a new report on…
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Government report card: poverty, jobs, housing – FAIL!
The Salavation Army "State of the Nation" report is out today, and, as Metiria Turei says, it makes depressing reading. It confirms what many of us have been seeing and discussing for a few years now. Kate Chapman says on Stuff, The Government is not doing…
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Our international shame
It's not often I agree with Judith Collins but when she describes Richard Prosser's racist filth as an "international embarrassment" I couldn't agree more. That said, her government's collusion in the Pacific Solution is probably even more damaging to our international reputation. New Zealand has…
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Open mike 13/02/2013
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Bully Banks
Good for Damien O'Connor. He's calling for an enquiry into possible mis-selling of interest rate swaps to farmers. Good on Fairfax's Rob Stock too, who has written extensively about this issue in the Sunday Star-Times. In Britain, it's a huge story; their Financial Services Authority…
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Just get the f*ck out
Prosser, just f*cken resign. There's no place for the likes of you. You've been elected purely to make up numbers for Peters. And you couldn't even do that without being a disgusting bigot. You're not the only rightwinger playing up race fears. Hooton claims Indonesia…
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A living wage: living with dignity edition
The concept of a living wage is one that just makes good sense to me. A wage should be enough to live on, right? Because it's a wage? Because what's the point if it doesn't? Because ... because we have to work to support ourselves…
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Bomber, Tumeke and the next step…
Bomber Bradbury today steals The Pope's limelight by announcing that he is stepping down from Tumeke. But fear not Lefties - it's for a good cause... Why I'm stepping down from Tumeke - what I have in common with the Pope today Dear blogging whanau.…
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February 14 – One Billion Rising
Check out One Billion Rising: One In Three Women On The Planet Will Be Raped Or Beaten In Her Lifetime. One Billion Women Violated Is An Atrocity. One Billion Women Dancing Is A Revolution. Join V-Day on 02.14.13 STRIKE, DANCE, RISE in your community &…
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John Key discovers the usefulness of Yellow Peril
Bad jobs numbers and a succession of collapses of major businesses weighing your government down? You need: distraction! How about an old classic from the New Zealand politician's playbook - the Yellow Peril! Passed on by Richard Seddon and Winston Peters, Yellow Peril's now being…
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Open mike 12/02/2013
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Key Living Wage: “A matter for them”
John Key, as expected, failed to take any sort of lead - or even fast following - on the Living Wage campaign. It's "a matter for them" - businesses and workers - not something for a mere Prime Minister to be interested in. He thinks…
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Caption competition
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The green economy
There's a lot of talk about the benefits of moving to a green, sustainable economy but details on what that looks like in practice in New Zealand are often frustratingly thin. Greenpeace is releasing a report - The Future is Here - that puts meat…
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Save the Family Court
The Government's Family Court Proceedings Reform Bill is receiving submissions until this Wednesday, 13 February. For a number of reasons this Bill needs drastic alteration. The women at the Women's Health Action Trust and the Auckland Women's Health Centre have put together an excellent document…
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Missive to a parasite
Convicted fraudster and Herald columnist Damien Grant says 'good riddance' to manufacturing in his latest piece. Apparently, manufacturing dying is just one of those things and, also, it's not dying (it's those contradictions that get you caught, Damien). And we shouldn't do anything to get…
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The failure of economic austerity
I know, I know, I've written about the failure of economic austerity before, like a broken record. But the evidence just keeps getting clearer and clearer. Paul Krugmann makes the case in his recent "Looking for Mister Goodpain": Three years ago, a terrible thing happened…
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For a living wage
The living wage campaign is announcing this week the results of its study into the pay that a family needs to afford the basics for a decent life in New Zealand. It'll be around $18-$20 an hour, which is more than 40% of workers get.…
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Open mike 11/02/2013
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Hatin’ on the left
So Trevor Mallard thinks it's smart to stick the boot in to Russell Norman for linking to an article about using the printing of money as a tool of monetary policy. Well it says a lot more about the state of the Labour Party than…
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Xtra email compromised?
In the last 12 hours I've had robo-spam email from 4 different friends, all with xtra email accounts. Is anyone else seeing this? Could be a major compromise of xtra email. If you have an xtra account, check your "out" folder. If there are messages…
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Key loses war on P
In 2009 John Key personally declared a "War on P": My message to the gangs is clear. This Government is coming after your business and we will use every tool we have to destroy it. We will be ruthless in our pursuit of you and the evil drug…
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Open mike 10/02/2013
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De-regulation, de-democratisation
Is it just me or does the argument for a four year term of Parliament look a lot like the argument that's presented for deregulation? I was thinking about this watching Mainzeal go under as its leaky building legacy caught up with it. It's the…
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What are they afraid of?
(I see Karol touched on this topic in an earlier post, but I think it's worth further examination.) As widely reported, Big Film is having a bit of a hissy fit right now. Here's the 3 News account: Warner, Wingnut warn against releasing Hobbit docs…
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To intervene or not to intervene, that is the question…
Frank Macskasy at Frankly Speaking writes... To intervene, or not to intervene, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in this government’s mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous recessionary fortune, Or to take arms against a global sea of economic troubles, And…
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Community Service
The 7 Greenpeace activists, who occupied a Shell oil drilling ship last year, performed a service to global communities in drawing attention to the impact of the fossil fuel industry on Climate Change were sentenced this week. So the punishment dished out by the court is a…
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Poverty Watch 18
Last week we started on, the Children’s Social Health Monitor 2012 Update Report, see the the full report (pdf) here. Today we'll carry on to the next part of the report, Economic Indicators, and summarise two of the sections: Income Inequality There has been much debate…
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